Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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April 2004 |
ARRL NYC/LI April E-happenings Newsletter Written and Edited by George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI Welcome! This is the April edition of the NY City / Long Island "ehappenings" Section newsletter! This newsletter is here to serve the Amateur Radio community in our area. I welcome and encourage all submissions. Please help make this your newsletter! I especially encourage officers of the area's Amateur Radio clubs to submit their meeting announcements, guest speakers and special events. Please submit any information for the May issue prior to the end of April. Section News Section News is available ONLY on the world-wide-web. See the NLI site at: http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI IN THIS ISSUE: * From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator * From Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager * The First Mid Atlantic QSO Party * ARRL C-CE course advance registration opportunities via e-mail * New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications" * MetroCor is coordinating body for the New York metro area * Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker * Section VE Sessions * UPCOMING Club Events * NLI Section Website: http://hudson.arrl.org/nli HAPPENINGS * From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator New York City District - DEC Michael Licenco N2YBB: It should be noted that the Richmond (Staten Island) ARES group is considered to have re-started with the reorganization this month. February was a relatively quiet month. It was spent going to club meetings to recruit new members and going to monthly borough meetings to bring the general membership up to date. March will see the first ARES drill in recent memory. New York City ARES will be deploying throughout the five boroughs as if an emergency caused an activation and we will also be participating with Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk County ARES to ascertain the ability to communicate throughout the region into the County Red Cross EOCs. More on that next month. John Kiernan KE2UN; EC for Manhattan: 1 emergency net for winter storm. Shelter coverage by Manhattan ARES - 4 operators total hours 36. Nets 1 each Monday ARES NET Manhattan ARES meeting canceled due to storm call up. Next meeting February 19 at 7:30 PM location to be announced. Chris Sierra KC2KFW; EC Bronx: Eusebio S. Rodriguez has rejoined the Bronx ARES group under the call sign WB2SEB. Adam Fine AB2IZ, EC Kings County: Kings County ARES meeting: Held on Wednesday, February 18th, 2004. Topics discussed: Net check-in procedure, weekly Kings County ARES net and the NCS schedule, upcoming events, district-wide drill on March 6th, 2003, Red Cross forms, ARES applications and ID cards, and Kings County ARES website (thanks to N2RGA). We also had a guest speaker: Jeff Schneller N2HPO from SATERN. He gave a small talk and presentation about how the Salvation Army works and how ARES and SATERN will work together in the future. In attendance: AB2IZ, KA2FXR, KA2KDQ, KB2SUR, KB2TWY, KB2VDV, KC2CBL, KC2JXM, KC2LWP, KC2LYT, KC2MGY, KD2AU, N2ECR, N2HPO, N2KEN, N2RGA, N2YBB, W2/8R1B, W2DEA, W2MPL, and WA2JNF. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 at 7:30pm. The location is UCP 121 Lawrence Street, between Ocean Parkway and Seton Place Brooklyn, NY. Joseph Nieves, N2TEE, EC Richmond County: Red Cross volunteer applications all submitted. Standardizing on 4th Thursday of the month for county meetings. Working on selecting date/time for boro net. Requesting permission from repeater owner once boro net is defined. Requesting permission for Boro Wide Test. Work with repeater owner and membership on mapping out coverage locally (aka dead zone search). Work on recruitment efforts. Nassau County - EC Mario Maltese WF2T reporting for DEC George Gluck WA2WKV: Charles Alfano WA2GUG gave a class on APRS at the monthly meeting on February 10. On February 19th, an OEM drill was held in which ARES participated at the 1st Fire Battalion EOC and the American Red Cross. Nassau ARES also had a table at the LIMARC hamfest, and signed several new members that will be tallied next month (staffed hours NOT counted in total). Suffolk County - Bill Schiebel N2NFI, DEC SC: Nothing new to report. Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: Update of FSA database for NLI. * From Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager STM Claire Heil WA2VZK reports the following: 1)NTS "section level" CW nets : NYS/M 10am local time daily NYS/E 7pm local time daily NYS/L 10pm local time daily All our "section level" cw nets meet on 3677 KHz . 2)NTS "section level" phone nets: New York Phone (NYP) 1pm daily (currently meeting on 7237 KHz but usually meets on 3925 KHz during the winter months.) New York Public Operations Net (NYPON) 5pm daily on 3913 KHz (alternate freq. 3925 KHz +/- QRM). 3)"Independent nets" which maintain close association with the NTS. Empire Slow Speed Net (ESS) 6pm daily on 3590 KHz . Hit and Bounce Net (HBN) 8:30am daily on 7042 KHz . Hit and Bounce Slow Net (HBSN) 7:30am daily on 3714 KHz (alternate freq. 7114 KHz). New York City -Long Island cw net (NLI) 7:30pm Mon. through Fri. on 3630 KHz . (all times listed are local eastern times) 4)The NTS "local nets" are: Big Apple Net 8pm daily on 146.430 MHz Nassau Co. VHF Net 7:30pm on 146.805 MHz Suffolk Co. VHF Net 8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz. The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of February 2004 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 368, N2YBB 156, N2AKZ 110, KC2GOW 100, KB2KLH 100, W2DSX 91, KE2SX 90, WB2AAP 24. NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 29 165 48/40 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 29 270 169/159 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 29 186 139/119 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 29 245 367/357 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 29 392 158/152 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 29 433 0/113 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 6 9 0/0 WA2YOW Big Apple VHF BAVHF 29 708 86/85 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF 29 165 37/37 W2DSX Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 13 44 19/19 WA2VZK (*) report not received in time for this list As of March 14, Paul Dooling KC2LEV is the new NM of the SCVHF net and James Minor W2DSX is the new NM of the NCVHF net. 73, Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager. Contact Claire at CAHEIL@aol.com * The First Mid Atlantic QSO Party The first annual Mid Atlantic QSO Party is a new event to give amateur radio operators across the country and around the world the opportunity to enjoy the fun of a regional QSO Party. The First MAQSO Party will meet on May 8th, 2004 from 1600-0200 UTC and May 9th 2004 from 1600-0000 UTC, on all HF bands except WARC bands and on VHF/UHF through 450 MHz. For the purposes of this event the Mid Atlantic region consists of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Mid Atlantic QSO Party provides operators the chance to pursue a competitive challenge in a low-key, low-pressure atmosphere. In short, the purpose of this event is for each ham operator to have fun, enjoy the event, and seek whatever level of participation they desire. The MAQSO Party committee will offer a multitude of certificates and awards, too. All amateur radio operators are invited to check the MAQSO Party website at http://www.qsl.net/maqso for full details and contest rules, including state and county maps, and the list of standardized 5-letter county abbreviations, all available for downloading. There are a lot of county multipliers in seven states! The MAQP Website also includes information about contest logging software and modules that the major designers have already prepared for their customers. There are also some logging programs that have been prepared specifically for MAQP use. In New York State, please contact either Ted Edwards, W3TB, w3tb@twcny.rr.com, or Ted Champagne, N4TW, n4tw@arrl.net, for more information. * ARRL C-CE course advance registration opportunities via e-mail A service now allows those interested in taking an ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE) course in the future to receive advance word of registration opportunities via e-mail. To take advantage, send an e-mail to prereg@arrl.org. On the subject line, include the course name or number (eg, EC-00#). In the message body, include your name, call sign, e-mail address, and the month you want to start the course. To learn more, visit the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Web page <http://www.arrl.org/cce/> and the C-CE Links found there. For more information, contact Emergency Communications Course Manager Dan Miller, K3UFG, <dmiller@arrl.org>; 860-594-0340. * New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications" New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications". The items are: 1. Orange reflective vest with "Amateur Radio Communications" on the back, $9.95; 2. Blue windbreaker with ARES logo on the front and "Amateur Radio Communications" on the back, $30.95 (can be personalized with name/call); and 3. Black equipment bag with ARES logo, $24.95. To see these products, please visit http://www.barkerspecialty.com/arrl/ and click on "ARES Products". * MetroCor is coordinating body for the New York metro area MetroCor is the new coordinating body for the New York City metropolitan area. See their website at http://www.metrocor.net * Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker and is available for field checking of QSL cards for your DXCC Award. If interested, please contact Emil at etillona@interserv.com * Section VE Sessions Section VE Sessions - available on the web at: http://hudson.arrl.org/nli/nlive.htm * UPCOMING Club Events NOTE - As usual, please check with the club to verify the date and time of all events, especially during inclement weather! Nassau County Police Amateur Radio Club will not have an April meeting. They will hold their May monthly meeting on May 6th at our regular meeting site, 859 E. Park Ave in Long Beach. Pizza and doughnuts (traditional NCPARC refreshments) will be served. This meeting will be important as it is the last before Field Day. (meeting time TBA, probably 7 PM). For more information or directions, contact George WB2GTC at GeorgegeeG@aol.com Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, April 2, at the Southold Public Library in Southold at 6:30 pm. See http://www.peconic-arc.org or contact Roberta Keis N2RBU at 631-722-4060 for directions. Larkfield ARC will hold a VE Session on Saturday, Apr. 3, at 9 am at the Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street, Room 114 (Entrance on Jackson Ave), Huntington, NY. Contact: Stanley Mehlman N2YKT (631) 423-7132 The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 6, at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at 7 P.M. Preregister with Harvey (KB2EA) at 718-948-2290 or Ed (W2SN) at 718-833-7120. See http://www.kc2ra.org/ American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Tuesday, Apr. 6, at 7:30 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd, 1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435. Contact Lenny Smith N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com. Knickerbocker Amateur Radio Club meeting will be on Thursday, Apr. 8, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, Apr. 8, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see http://www.larkfield.org The Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold its regular monthly "Non-meeting Meeting" (social night) on Thursday, Apr. 8, at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at 6:30 P.M. See http://www.kc2ra.org/ Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, Apr. 9 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please be prepared to suggest club goals including projects, subjects for speakers, etc. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE exam on Monday, Apr. 12 at 612 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10025 at 6:00 pm. Preregister by calling Alan N2YGK at 212-854-3754 or alan@columbia.edu The Brookhaven ARES Group will be having their Monthly Meeting at the National Weather Service at Brookhaven Lab on Monday, April 12 at 7:30 PM. Along with the General Meeting , we will be given a tour of the facility by Scott, KC2JCB. At this same meeting, a Basic Skywarn course will be given. All members that plan to attend should contact Joe KC2BPS at kc2bps@arrl.net. Prior to that date ,as BNL Security has to be notified of those attending. Scott, kc2jcb, can also be contacted at kc2jcb@arrl.net. Submitted by Brookhaven ARES EC, Joe KC2BPS. HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Apr. 13, in Queens at 8 pm. Meetings are held at the New York Hall of Science Museum cafeteria, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, Queens NY. Please enter the cafeteria through the back science playground behind the museum. See their website at http://www.qsl.net/hosarc or call 718-760-2022. Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, Apr. 13 at 5 PM, at Underwriters Lab in Mellville, NY. Contact Bob Wexelbaum, W2ILP for more information or to pre-register at (631) 499-2214 or via e-mail w2ilp@juno.com Nassau County ARES meeting will be held at the Red Cross Chapter at 195 Willis Avenue Mineola, at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, Apr. 13. For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Apr. 14, at the Ryan's Visitor Center, Floyd Bennett Field, Room A, in Brooklyn at 7:30 pm See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 14, in Hicksville at 8 pm. George Landauer WA2PAV along with Larry W2EJ, Lew W2BIE and Steve WB2ZHB will be giving a presentation and discussion about Nassau County RACES and the changes that are taking place with the new county administration and Office of Emergency Management. The meetings are held at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, NY 11801. See http://www.limarc.org The Town of Babylon Amateur Radio Emergency Services meetings are on the third Thursday each month @ 8:00 PM. This month's meeting will be held on Thursday, Apr. 15. Location is the basement of Babylon Town Hall in the Emergency Operations Center, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst, NY. For more information, see their Website: http://www.tobares.org or contact Babylon town EC Walter Wenzel, KA2RGI at 631-957-0218 or via e-mail at ka2rgi@arrl.net. The Long Island DX Association regular meeting will be at 8PM on Friday, April 16, 2004 at Briarcliffe College, 1055 Stewart Ave., Bethpage (Room 10 in the Huntington Hallway). The meetings are held on the third Friday of each month. See the Web at http://www.qsl.net/lidxa/ or contact Marty Miller NN2C, President of the LIDXA, at mmiller4@optonline.net for further information. The Staten Island Amateur Radio Association (SIARA) will hold its monthly general meeting on Friday, April 16th starting at 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Seaview Home Rehabilitation Center and Hospital, Fireside Room, 460 Brielle Avenue, Staten Island. Contact SIARA President Walter Persans WA2ZBE at 718-981-5638 for more information. "The Skirmish" - Digital Prefix Contest - digital modes, sponsored byTARA (Troy Amateur Radio Association - N2TY), will be held 0000 - 2400 UTC on April 17. Frequencies: 160 - 6 Meters. NO WARC BANDS! Categories: PSK31, PSK63, MFSK, RTTY, Hell, Throb, Packet, ASCII, SSTV and MT63. Exchange: Name & Prefix. Score: QSOs x WPX prefixes x Power Multiplier . (High <Legal Limit x 0.5, Low <100 watts x 1, Great <20 watts x 2, QRP <5 watts x 3, SWL RX ONLY x 0 ). See http://www.n2ty.org/seasons/tara_dpx_rules.html for more info or contact TARA's Skirmish Manager, Chris Durbin, N8PSK at skirmish-manager@n2ty.org Valid scores must be received by 15-May-04 via the online score form at: http://n2ty.org/seasons/tara_dpx_score.html . We no longer require you to send your logs but they must be on hand if the contest committee requests them. The monthly Queens County ARES meeting will be Sunday, Apr. 18 at 2:00 pm at Elmhurst General Hospital, 79-01 Broadway, Queens in conference room A1-15. The meeting topic is to be determined. New Members welcome. Please Contact Queens Emergency Coordinator Charles Gallo at Charlie@TheGallos.com The Eastern Amateur Radio Service Club monthly meeting will be Tuesday, April 20th in Southampton. The meeting will take place at Southampton Hospital in room A282. The hospital is located at 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton. For additional information, contact Rocky, KA2JAK, at rkradio@optonline.net. Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Apr. 20 in Bohemia at 8 pm. The meeting site is the Bohemia Recreation Center on Ruzicka Way, in Bohemia. Contact Les KB2ZHF at Leskb2zhf@aol.com or call 631-399-4041 or see their webpage at http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold a regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Apr. 20 at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. http://www.kc2ra.org/ Manhattan ARES meeting will be on Thursday, Apr. 22, at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. Radio Central ARC will be participating in Marconi Day on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24. RCARC will be holding this annual event at the Carasiti Elementary School in Rocky Point in the Historic Marconi shack. We go on the air at 0000 UTC on April 24 (7 PM on Friday, April 23) for 24 hours. Those interested in participating may contact Emil Tillona KD1F, President RCARC at etillona@interserv.com The 575 Long Island Amateur Radio Simplex Club will be participating in Marconi Day. We will be setting up on Friday, April 23rd at 12PM at the RCA Site off of Rocky Point Road (Marconi Blvd.) in Rocky Point. The site is approximately 3 miles north of Route 25 on the right side of the road. We will have signs up at the site. We will be there until Saturday 8PM. All are welcome to join us for the fun. 73, Bob DeLumen, KC2KPS, Secretary LIARS Club. Contact Bob at kc2kps@yahoo.com Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Apr. 26 in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. Nassau ARC meets every Monday night @ 7:30 pm. The General meeting is the last Monday of the month at 8 pm. All are welcome. Contact Lance Aue, KA2EJD, President at vze3db97@verizon.net or see http://www.nassauarc.org Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Apr. 28 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. The presentation will be on Radio Astronomy. See http://www.rcarc.org GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, Apr. 29 at 7:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org NLI Webpage: The Section Webpage contains LOTS of great information on section happenings, VE session, Education, Clubs, section staff, and much more! See http://hudson.arrl.org/nli Please contact the webmaster, Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net) to add events or other things to this page. NLI Section News is available at http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI That's about it for this month! Please help make this newsletter even more interesting and informative by sending me news about YOUR club and events. NLI Section e-happenings Section Manager - George Tranos N2GA (n2ga@arrl.org) Assistant Section Managers NLI - Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net) New York City - Rob Todaro N1XL Nassau County - Norm Wesler K2YEW (k2yew@arrl.net) Suffolk County - Len Battista W2FX (w2fx@arrl.net) Digital Communications - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net) |